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The absolute worst dining experience for a supposedly top-tier establishment. Party was served rare prime rib when the order was for medium rare. Birthday party guest was "treated" to a candle in the dessert ordered by another party guest. The last time I waste the considerable resources expected for this formerly great eatery.
ULTRA Disapointment ! – After a very expensive & disappointing party-of-five Birthday dinner, I can never recomend this resturant to anyone ever again.
They were out of 4 fo the 5 choice I made from THEIR wine list ! Then to add insult to injury, a supposedly top-notch Steakhouse had not Baked Potatos available at 8:00 P.M.
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Save your money and go somewhere else. There are a lot of other very good resturants in Los Gatos.
Editorial Review by Christy Buena – Restaurant serves premium Kobe-brand Wagyu beef, fresh seafood, and a variety of chicken, pasta and vegetarian options at reasonable prices.
Every meal at Forbes Mill has been worth it! – My husband and I love this place - from the Cowboy Ribeye to the Kobe New York steak, we've walked away happy every time. It'This place definitely ranks near the top of the list in terms of South Bay steakhouses.
Great Service - Best steaks in south bay – I had a fantastic time at Forbes Mill Steakhouse the other night! We started off with two glasses of champagne and shared oysters on the half shell and pan seared ahi as our starter course. We split a ceaser salad. The spliting the salad was our server's suggested as the we loads of food coming. Great idea! I had the bone-in ribeye cooked to a perfect medium rare. My husband had the kobe filet mignon with a lobster tail. It was out of this world. We also shared the asparagus with bernaise sauce. We had a wonderful Pinot Noir that our server suggested, then decanted properly at the table. For dessert, we shared the cheesecake topped with a passion fruit glaze. Written on the plate was happy anniversary! To our suprise, the server informed us that the dessert was on them as it was our anniversary. Our dinner was served in a timely manner. We felt neither rushed nor ignored. I know some of the reviews on this site has had not so nice comments about the service, but I didn't see any of that. In fact the staff and management seemed relaxed and happy in their working environment.
Oh, I forgot to mention that they had a special greeting for us printed on our menus to wish us a happy anniversary. A very nice touch. Thank you Forbes for a wonderful evening!
Used to be so much better.... – Forbes Mill used to actually be a place to go get a great steak, and even get your money's worth. How times have changed. The service was friendly if not impatient, and the atmosphere is quite nice, as its always been. But then comes the key for me - the food (crazy thought, right? focusing on food in a restaurant?)
Way too expensive, first of all. mid-30's starting point? And no sides? ouch - the steak Better be good. but no, the filet wasnt cooked right, and the taste just wasnt there really. The sides were small and bland, and my wife's veggie dish went half-uneaten.
If you read my other reviews, youll see I moved on down the street for a great steak....and its not even a steakhouse....
Fabulous Fare, Amazing Service – I was able to enjoy yet another fabulous dinner at FM last week. I have dined here 6 times, and every time it's better than the last.
Food: The steaks are fabulous. I have tried 4 different cuts, and all are great. The ribeye with Maui onions and bleucheese is amazing. I was planning on having it last week, however other guests had beaten me to it. The server suggested I try the dryaged ribeye. It came so well prepared it melted in my mouth. Choices of other guests included a 'Forbidden Rice' dish, vegetarian pasta, and 3 other steaks. All of us loved our choices. The side dishes (mashed potatoes, au gratin potatoes, aspargus) were all done well, served hot and there was plenty to share. We enjoyed the 'sampler' appetizer before dinner - the server gave us a choice of 3 items. Calamari, sirloin tips, and seared ahi. It was all outstanding. Dessert was an event as well. The Kona coffee brulee is always a winner. They have a cheesecake that is ordinary. A choice of a sampler dessert... warm apple crisp with icecream and 4 or 5 other items. Some guests shared this - it is huge!
Their wine list is astonishing and fun to read. We always bring wine, and they are more than happy to pour for us. Corkage is $18 (I think), but it beats paying the typical restaurant mark-up on wine.
Service: Everytime I have been there, the service has been impeccible. The servers are kind, gracious and helpful. They have been trained well and perform to the high standards the owners obviously demand. Some may think it 'snooty', but joke with them a little at the beginning and they invariably loosen up and make it a fun night. Don't expect to have dinner and get to the movies. Take your time, enjoy, it's worth it.
We were there to celebrate a 30th b'day and when I called for reservations, the hostess told me that they would personalize the menu with a Happy Birthday message. I assumed it was for our table only, it was for the entire restaurant... what fun for the birthday girl!
Expensive unimpressive food in downtown Los Gatos – My wife and I went to Forbes Mill Steakhouse after wanting to eat there for quite some time. I should have known we'd be in trouble when the concierge at the desk gave me a shocked look when I told her we had no reservation on a Saturday night, and then acted like she'd be doing me a favor by getting me a table in "20, 30 minutes, maybe longer, have a seat and we'll let you know".
We sat down in their little holding cell and I went to the bar to get cocktails. It took ages for the bartender to decide to pay attention to customers who wanted drinks. I had hoped that this was just a fluke, and was looking forward to a nice steak dinner.
We were finally seated in a cozy corner of the restaurant, but was surprised that they had paper table cloths on top of linen with cheap cutlery. They did have an impressive wine list,and although we didn't order wine, the Sommelier clearly took his job seriously, complete with proper decanting.
On to the menu, where I was shocked to see prices for their steaks started in the mid $30's for steaks. Just steaks. We're talking ala carte, no salad, no veg... you have to buy these separately at $7 and up. Talk about setting up some extreme expectations; $40 for a steak with no sides makes me think it will be a definitive culinary experience!
We decided on ordering two of the chef specials and two salads to start along with a spinach side. The salads came promptly, and were absolutely delicious! With great anticipation we waited (and waited, and waited) for our steaks, only to be profoundly disappointed.
My wife's "dual filets and jumbo shrimp" were nicely presented, but the filets were the size of meatballs, literally. Clearly their portions are substandard. I received my steaks which were two New York petites with asparagus and potatoes au gratin. Bad news: the plate was cold, the steaks were luke warm and had obviously been sitting for quite some time. I was asked if everything was okay, and I told the server about the problem. Instead of apologizing and wisking away the plate to fix the problem, the server instead got defensive about their kitchen. "Everything is served promptly" Perhaps this was a regular occurrence that she should defend her kitchen instead of just fixing the problem?
The server took the meal back, and some time later my plate was returned, much hotter now, but the steaks were, in all honesty, not very tasty and certainly no better than what you can get at Outback. I expected perfection and all I got was medicrity. I realize for a place that specializes in steaks this is a distinct insult, but the fact is the portions were small, the steaks weren't particularly tasty, the accompaniments were somewhat goopy (potatoes) and greasy (asparagus), and definitely NOT worth the money.
I would have expected some kind of compensation for being served a meal that had obviously been sitting for 10 minutes before being served. We were offered apologies and then asked if we would like complimentary deserts, which we declined, and then told that if we asked for that server, the desserts were on her if we remembered to ask for that server. Huh? Pretty presumptive that we'd return, I think. Disappointing, for sure.
Being in the restaurant business is very hard. It requires a combination of supremely gracious service and exceptional product quality. I would have to say that Forbes has neither. They are snobby without merit, their prices are outrageous for what you get (the bill came to almost $120 and we didn't have any wine!!) and the quality is sub-standard. Perhaps being in the middle of yuppieville means they survive inspite of their weaknesses, but for the rest of us who don't have tons of Cisco options, I'd say pass on this place.
There are many fine restaurants in Los Gatos, this is not one of them and I'd suggest you try one of the other places in town before enduring this place.
A "SteakHouse" should cook steak right – Not happy at all with this place. Ordered a $45 steak medium Rare and was served med/well/well. Date finished dinner before I got mine and they offered nothing after the screw up. 3 times there, 2 were poor...no more.
Forbes Mill-cooking up recipes for fond memories. – We were celebrating an anniversary and requested a quieter table. Forbes Mill came through. The hostess indeed seated us in a slightly quieter area. The "Specials" sheet that was tucked inside the menu read "Happy Anniversary Mr, & Mrs. Schultz at the top of the page. One or two reviews on this site mention rushed or poor service. Our waitress was informative, but not obnoxious, attentive, but not annoying, and seemed genuinely interested in making our experience at Forbes Mill Enjoyable.
Lonny, Manager and Sommelier, is loaded with enthusiasm for his craft. The guy knows his stuff. His suggestions for a wine that would work with our order for both meat & fish was dead on
The restaurant is fairly pricey, yes, but Forbes Mill didn't just prepare an excellent meal, they used all of their resources to create what will be a lasting memory for us and our guests.
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In the first radiological news story of 2012 Bed, Bath, & Beyond announced on January 12 that it had received a shipment of steel tissue holders (manufactured in India) that were contaminated with radioactive cobalt-60. As of this writing it is not quite certain exactly where the Co-60 came from, although there are some guesses (more on this in a moment). First, a little on the health effects of this contamination.
The tissue boxes are radioactive – no doubt about it. The question is whether or not they are sufficiently radioactive to cause health problems. At present I have been having problems finding the results of direct radiation dose measurements and without some numbers all that we have to go by are the assurances that have been printed in press releases. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the New York State Department of Health have noted that a person who purchased one of these tissue holders and who had a fairly typical exposure to the holder would receive low doses of radiation – New York State officials were quoted as saying that exposure to one of the boxes for an hour would be the equivalent of a chest x-ray.
I don't doubt that this statement is factually correct but, as a scientist, I find it a little unsatisfying – I want numbers! In particular, I'd like to know what dose rate was measured from the boxes and at what distance – with that I can figure out the amount of Co-60 in each of the boxes and I can calculate the radiation dose at any distance and for any length of time. One number that I've heard – although without attribution – was that the tissue holders were reading less than 10 mrad/hr at a distance of 2-3 feet. This is consistent with the statements made by NRC and NYS officials, but it's really just a guess.
When we have a situation like this there are any number of ways to go about determining the radiation dose and the risk, but there are two or three that are fairly common approaches. One is to assume the very worst combination of circumstances and to calculate the maximum radiation dose that anyone could possibly receive. If the dose calculated this was is acceptable then we can assume that the reality would certainly be OK. In this case, the very worst set of circumstances would be to assume that somebody holds one of these tissue holders in their lap continuously. So – if we have a tissue holder that's reading 10 mrad/hr 3 feet away it will read about 100 mrad/hr at a foot and about 1 rad/hr at a distance of 4 inches. The radiation dose to the whole body would be a bit lower than this since most of us are more than 8 inches tall – there might be a fairly high radiation dose to the lap but radiation dose to the whole body would be lower. Even this scenario, however, would expose a person to many rads of radiation each year, and even a single rad annually is ten times the radiation exposure limit for members of the public.
But we have to ask ourselves if this dose – and the assumptions that went into calculating it – are reasonable. How long can we expect that somebody will actually hold a tissue holder and what distance will they keep it from them? I can go by my own apartment, I suppose – I have two boxes of tissues in my apartment, one next to my desk and the other next to my bed. I spend a lot of time in each of thes locations – about 6 hours nightly asleep (and about 2 feet from that tissue box at the head of the bed) and about 4 hours every evening (plus weekends) at the desk at home, with the box of tissues at my feet. If we stick with a dose rate of 10 mrad/hr at a distance of 3 feet as the standard then we can calculate that I'd receive about 100 mrad every day from tissue boxes (if I had two of this particular box in my apartment).
But what I don't know – what I have no way of knowing – is whether or not my own tissue box placement is the same as everyone else's, if I get the same amount of sleep as others, if I spend the same amount of time at my desk as others, and so forth. For example, if I had only one box in my bathroom my dose would be a lot lower, and if I lived in a house and not in a small (650 square feet) apartment then my dose would likely be lower yet. This is the problem with any sort of radiation dose calculation – and the risk from exposure to radioactive objects – since we don't know how every single person will use the objects we often have to choose between a clearly ludicrous scenario that will produce the highest calculated dose or we have to develop a scenario that seems more reasonable, but that might overestimate the dose to some while underestimating the dose to others. Any set of assumptions – from the most pessimistic to the most optimistic – can be questioned. It makes the whole radiological assessment business challenging.
In the case of the Indian tissue box holders – and in the absence of any more solid information – it seems reasonable to take the statements by regulators at face value (I have a lot of professional respect for both New York State and Federal radiation regulators, who are typically quite talented – and no, I don't work for either of these organizations and I'm not regulated by them!). This would come out to several hundred mrem of radiation exposure annually – less than what is known to cause harm, but still more exposure than we really want the public to receive. Thus, the regulatory comments make sense – while nobody is at immediate risk from these holders it is reasonable to take them off the market, keeping radiation exposure to the public As Low As Reasonably Achievable.
The issue of protecting the public from radiation exposure is important, but it's not the only issue in this case – there is also the question of how Co-60 found its way into a bunch of tissue box holders in the first place. Co-60 is used in industry and (less frequently) in medicine – sources can range from virtually risk-free to dangerously radioactive. Interestingly, in 2010 an "orphaned" Co-60 source from Delhi University was responsible for 11 hospitalizations and a death when a radioactive source accidentally ended up at a scrap metal yard. Whether Co-60 from this source is what ended up in the metal of the tissue holders is not yet known – but at the least the 2010 incident demonstrates that India suffered one breakdown in their control of radioactive materials in the recent past and there might have been more.
Globally, "orphaned" radioactive sources have caused problems in the past and they are likely to continue doing so for years to come. The International Atomic Energy Agency has devoted considerable resources to trying to identify and control dangerous radioactive sources for years, yet there are still accidents (for copies of the IAEA reports on these accidents you can browse through the documents in the IAEA Non-Serial Publications, which are available for download as PDF files). Part of the key to keeping these sources under control is for governments to maintain up-to-date information of the whereabouts of the most dangerous sources and the other part of the problem is for governments to make sure that these sources are kept safe and secure against loss or theft. In the United States this is accomplished through something called Increased Controls that aims to increase accountability for the sources as well as for those working with them. Extending such controls to other nations is something the IAEA has been working on for years, but there is still much work to be done – as evidenced by the 2010 accident in India.
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From my point of view, we are on the cusp of a major advance forward in nutrition as seen in the public sphere. Hostess Baked Goods may decide to completely liquidate. Yes, you heard me – Twinkies and Wonder Bread may disappear into brand oblivion. Please give me a moment while I do the same goofy dance I did when I heard about New York Mayor Bloomberg's decision to fight for, pass and enforce a city ordinance banning sugary drinks over 16 ounces.
In neither case can I even pretend to be objective about my opposition to people who make money selling sugar, even in the face of mounting evidence that sugar will make you fat, clog your arteries and give you diabetes. If a car company knowingly sells a defective vehicle, I might say nice things about the company if they fix the car and pay out the damages that they honestly owe in order that a company that employs many people doesn't go splat on the kitchen floor. I can't do this for any sugar merchant; your products hurt people with no discernable upside, so get used to oblivion and/or increased regulatory scrutiny that artfully treads the line between corporate and personal responsibility.
Yes, the consumer really must take responsibility for what goes into their mouths, but at some point companies like Hostess must show the same corporate responsibility forced upon the cigarette companies by a landmark class action suit that perhaps if the products kill people then it isn't good to sell them. Ironically, current anti-tobacco ads depict tobacco as killing a third of its customers in any given year mostly with the effects of long term usage catching up to the unfortunate. But, I maintain that Big Sugar kills nearly as many of its customers with the effects of sugar lurking to shorten lifespans. Except for the few at the cutting edge, we didn't know about sugar in 1950 so you can make an excuse then, but we can't make that excuse now. We need to see the same types of ads dealing with Big Sugar's death rate, but…
Hostess is teetering on the brink of insolvency because of a vicious labor dispute. I must admit a lifelong general support for organized labor as defending workers from management who want to grind wages, conditions and benefits in their favor. I had always assumed that if both parties acted as rationally as possible in their own best interests and weren't interested in going nuclear then both sides would compromise so that everyone gets their half-loaf victory. And sometimes, I'm said to say, workers do have to take a pay cut, especially if they are already well paid under previous union deals to keep the company competitive. I have no idea if this concept applies to Hostess.
The greatest irony during the countdown to the November 16, 2012 decision to liquidate the whole company to avoid the wage concessions is that ultimately both sides want to win in the game of chicken so that the company will continue to sell sugar to the public. The bakery unions want their higher wages and benefits so that they can feel valued for their work and get paid appropriately. The company wants more profit. However, this means that nutritionally speaking both sides earn the nastiest words my ghostwriter can think up to put ink to paper. Obviously, unlike for companies that sell a better class of products, I'm hoping that both sides will demonstrate the most arrogant intransigence forcing Hostess to implode in a puff of smoke.
Will we see less Twinkies or Wonder Bread bleached so white it really shouldn't even be called bread? Probably not. It is still my job as a health researcher to keep publicizing why many aspects of our modern diet are bad for all of us. If a market still exists for the Twinkie, Ding Dong and Ho-Ho after the liquidation decision then Hostess can simply sell the brands and recipes to another company with a different labor agreement and the dance begins again. But, if we start getting our sugar from natural sources like whole fruits and vegetables and buy less sweets, maybe we'll see the previously impossible: a failed sugary food company.
There is some hope that may happen. Buried in the articles explaining why labor and management are seemingly even more bitterly divided than Republicans and Democrats was this statement that sales of Hostess products are on a slow decline in part due to people making healthier eating choices. Imagine that.
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If you have been watching the news recently, you'll understand if I take a moment to enjoy that the tide may be turning on sugar. Perhaps, I should pull a Sally Field Oscar Speech and thank everybody on the planet, including CBS News. Okay, I'm fine now.
The magazine show 60 Minutes recently ran a story mostly based on Dr. Robert Lustig and his YouTube video that represented the opening broadside against refined sugar in general and fructose specifically. Dr. Lustig took the position that sugar is toxic and should be regulated the way nicotine and narcotics are regulated. Sign me up. Oh, that's right, I already did and I told you so.
I have minor differences with Dr. Lustig that won't affect the basic program of getting off sugar. Where he says fructose, whether bound as half the sucrose molecule or served up straight as High Fructose Corn Syrup, causes all the damage, I say to include excessive glucose in the regime. No one will get healthy replacing excessive fructose with even more glucose. Part of the diabetes/heart disease/hypertension disease cycle is simply run on too much sugar, whatever the type.
In short order, the show hit the high points of cancer, obesity, and heart disease and linked sugar to all of these diseases. The sugar spokesman tried to say Americans just need to exercise more to counteract the sugar, which flies in the face of our common experience that says many of us did exercise more and still got fat. However, many sugar addicts report that excessive sugar makes them mentally unready to exercise, making us even fatter. Lastly, the piece covered sugar's addictive properties using the same stark terms as with cocaine or heroin. Again, I told you so.
My one quibble with the piece is that either because of time, professional timidity, or lack of research before air is that the producers only covered the high points of degenerative disease. My I told you so includes a lot more diseases than obesity, heart disease, cancer and addiction. I would've liked someone to explain the Mineral Wheel describing how the nutrients we take relate to each other and how sugar upsets the apple cart.
Sugar makes the body highly acidic causing the body to pull calcium out of the bones to act as a base to remain in homeostasis. In one fell swoop, I have just linked osteoporosis to sugar because what else is calcium taken out of the bones? But, I have also continuously asserted mineral relationships (calcium meets up with phosphorous just so and so on) as an indicator of the health of the body's various hormone-based systems, which includes digestion and the immune system among others. If a person doesn't fully digest food and can't fight off a cold, can you think up a host of other medical problems to afflict us because of sugar?
I can. I did. And then I listed them. The only things in human medicine that sugar doesn't seem to directly affect are accidents and other mayhem. Though, less sugar can help you recover faster.
Lastly, I would like to mention that CBS News and other outlets have also reported on the latest research from Harvard University that sugar adds a 20-percent risk of heart attack among men that drink one sugary drink per day. The tide is turning. Cities begin to ban sugary drinks from public vending machines. We begin to understand just how dangerous sugar is and I told you so.
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I'm not sure how to react to celebrity chef Paula Deen's delayed announcement of contracting diabetes. Do I give full vent to the same schadenfreude as when I learned that many tobacco executives die of lung cancer? I don't think I can pull off kicking that woman when she's down with a straight face.
Ms. Deen bakes with sugar on the Food Network. We would seem to be natural enemies; the sugar lady with a signature recipe for Key Lime Pie vs. the anti-sugar lady who had to stop baking her mother's recipe for Christmas coffee cake. If you'd ever tasted that coffee cake, you'd understand and forgive if I might be a little snotty about other people's enjoyment of sugar. Truthfully, sometimes I'm exactly that person.
Ms. Deen even before her announcement had always hedged her bets telling her audience to practice moderation. I wonder if moderation can be taught by people who don't look like they walk it like they talk it. I have never expected total abstinence and a life without a little chocolate or Key Lime Pie in it makes you extremely boring. So does this make her the food TV equivalent of a professional football player willing to spend the rest of her life in extreme pain in return for fifteen years of gridiron glory as an example for the rest of us? She doesn't score touchdowns or do funny endzone dances, so I don't think her fans will give her the same free pass for the apparent stupidity of wrecking your body for other people's entertainment.
As soon as she let her diagnosis of Type-2 diabetes into our collective headspace, the media wolf pack circled for the kill. Some reports went right at the "southern comfort food" on Ms. Deen's show enjoying with straight up vicious glee the irony that a chef promoting a diet rich in butter and sugar would suddenly contract diabetes, an apparent poetic justice. Fellow celebrity chef/travel host Anthony Bourdain weighed in calling her "the most dangerous woman in America." Well, maybe she could be if a person actually ate her dishes at the rate at which Ms. Deen presents them on her show.
News shows found pictures of Ms. Deen posed with stacks of butter and suddenly scrutinized every meal. Oooooooooooh! She had a cheeseburger and fries! I'm not going to defend that plate as healthy, but no one eats perfectly. I still occasionally bust out the real whipped cream for the once a year pumpkin pie. I pay for it a few days later and go back to my normal regimen. I suppose this sort of thing could be what Ms. Deen meant by moderation, striking a balance between her Key Lime Pie and living long enough to enjoy the experience.
It wasn't just the media having fun with apparent hypocrisy, but the announcement also included an agreement with a drug company to sell their top shelf diabetes drug. The jackals closed in all over again because we hate corporations and the very thought that a celebrity would sell out on a medical condition for money. At least, we know her maintenance care will be essentially free.
The coverage did also need more balance concerning the health advice for diabetes patients as butter's being bad for people is under debate. Some (like the Atkins Diet and me) say naturally occurring dairy fat with limited lactose so eat responsibly because there are no substitutes, except that comes from a chemistry lab. Others (American Diabetes Association) say No Never. Even so that stack of butter sticks made for a great photo with which to smack around a celebrity. I suppose it's now time for all of us to be distracted by the next dress to walk down the runway.
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Those of you that may have already read our book Killer Colas may remember that we asserted that drinking soda is much like drinking battery acid. You may also remember that we tried several times to replicate a demonstration from Mr. Jacobs' youth where freshly pulled teeth from a nearby dentist where the teeth dissolved in Coke within about a week and a half or thereabouts. Suffice it to say the teeth didn't dissolve and we gave up.
In the book, we did present rumors and other assertions from news that the phosphoric acid in most soda brands could be used for all kinds of non-drinking uses like degreasing engine blocks and in one case from India was an amazingly effective pesticide. But, we had to pass these reports on as less than fully confirmed because the articles we based them on were either not found in the mountain of research material used for the book or came from dubious sources. Now we have lawyers and experts from Pepsi on record about the acidity of at least one soda: Mountain Dew.
In 2009, an Illinois man bought a soda at the local convenience store. He pops the top and finds a mouse in the can. After experiencing what might have been an entertaining Ick Dance (at least to the disinterested who got unadulterated sodas), the gentlemen in question performs as expected of the average American and sues everybody even remotely related to this disgusting experience, including Pepsi.
Part of the suit alleges that the soda company willfully took the mouse for testing it and then not returning the carcass to the plaintiff in a condition unusable for court or independent testing. So far this sounds like the normal sort of skullduggery that goes on every day when these kinds of lawsuits finally make it onto the schedule. Maybe Pepsi destroyed the evidence. Maybe the plaintiff is sweetening his case with an exaggeration. The jury will split the baby as the saying goes. Currently, the case is at an advanced pretrial stage discussing last minute motions and such.
But, what is really interesting from the point of view of health writers is what Pepsi's people just recently said trying not to give the plaintiff money, whether the $325,000 filed against Pepsi, the convenience store and store employees, or the reported $50,000 still on the table after the plaintiff's lawyers clearly advised him to keep his eyes on the prize: Pepsico's deep pockets. The defense strategy: the plaintiff could not have encountered the alleged dead rodent because the acid in the soda would have dissolved the body in the time between bottling and sale.
Apparently, the can was bottled in 2008 and sold in November 2009 according to court documents. Pepsi's expert testified that the mouse would not have been found in the solid state with soft tissue intact because the year interval would have turned the mouse into a "jelly-like substance." No assertions in court documents were made to assert tampering after being bottled. Also, no mention was made if said jelly would have still made for an unpleasant drinking experience worthy of earning a settlement.
You heard it here, there and maybe everywhere that the acid in soda is one of many reasons to stop drinking soda. Though we must admit that the possibility that on a particular production day in 2008 a dead mouse escaped both the Pepsico and the local government health inspection processes ranks almost as high.
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Resolutions, we've all made them. Usually, they last two weeks. So how do we give ourselves the best chance of meeting the next batch due in just a few weeks?
Perhaps the problem is that we attach too much to New Years as a time of new beginnings. We get too worked up over the change in calendar, which could put so much pressure on "I resolve to eat better and exercise" or "I resolve to read more books." The pressure can cause us to freeze up and fail the resolution.
One possible way to give yourself a chance is to shift the New Years metaphor to some other date. Start the regimen in March quietly and without fanfare and maybe you'll last long enough to change a few bad habits. My son, a writer, for the past two Novembers has tried to write a 50 thousand word novel in thirty days. He got close both times glad to take a half-loaf victory until he came across a suggestion to shift adherence to the challenge to August from another writer. Apparently, this writer admitted he enjoyed the fall TV schedule too much.
But, deferring the promise to yourself until an easier time with less pressure may not be enough to make things work. Some of us still need to figure out a way to eat less sugar and exercise more, right now. In almost no cases do I recommend anything like going cold turkey when it comes to such difficult things as cutting down on sugar, losing weight or becoming healthier. Few people can just quit sugar or any of the other harmful addictive foods in their diet. This is how New Years resolutions crash and burn.
My favorite trick is the half as much as yesterday approach, which I first discussed in my first book Lick the Sugar Habit. Take stock of your sugar intake today and then eat half as much tomorrow. Repeat the process the day after that. In a purely, mathematical sense using half as much sugar means you'd never completely cut out sugar. But, in the real world there is a fuzziness in measurement that means eventually within a week or so you'll be eating so little sugar that making the last jump to eating no sugar becomes easier.
I used a similar technique when I first got my kids off sugar. Many years ago we were traveling in England and I told them they could have one sugar filled item per day. Of course, I'd already dumped the cakes and colas that were waiting for us at home. My children went with the new regime without complaint and three weeks later we came home to house where the only sugar my kids ate came from outside the house.
Lastly, it is real important to seek help from other people trying to deal with your resolutions. When all else fails talking to other people with the same concerns can help when making major life changes. This is how Alcoholics Anonymous and other support groups work. People contemplating that piece of cheesecake can sometimes only be talked down by a friend. In my area of expertise, nutrition, I've dealt with many support groups that can help people from eating too much. My favorite is Food Addicts in Recovery because they seem to specialize in sugar addiction, but I've seen equally good results from Overeaters Anonymous and Food Addicts Anonymous. I don't have as much experience with the for profit weight loss programs like Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem, but I support anything that comes with a support system.
A person with the right plan and support can do anything, so whether waiting for an off month to start, using some variation of the half as much plan or reaching out for the right help any reasonable resolution is achievable. Do your best.
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AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is telling the Obama administration that Maine will consider participating in the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion if the federal government pays for affected recipients of the government-funded health insurance for 10 years.
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The proposal, outlined in a letter Monday to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is effectively LePage's counter-proposal to the federal government, which hopes states will join the expansion effort under the health care law.
LePage indicated last week that he is willing to consider Medicaid expansion, a departure from his previously stated opposition to the program.
In the letter to Sebelius, Maine Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew wrote that the state has been penalized for voluntarily expanding Medicaid eligibility in 2003. She said that because federal reimbursement rates for some Medicaid recipients have since decreased, other states are getting a better deal for participating in the expansion than Maine would.
Medicaid expansion will be fully funded by the federal government from 2014 through 2016. Federal funding will cover 90 percent of the program after that, although skeptics note that the post-2016 reimbursement could decrease.
The state is projected to spend $776 million on MaineCare, its version of Medicaid, in the fiscal year ending June 30. That's 25 percent of its overall budget. Counting federal money, nearly $2.4 billion will be spent on MaineCare this year.
The Medicaid expansion would make 55,000 more low-income people eligible for MaineCare, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Health Foundation.
Those people would be "able-bodied" parents, and adults who have no children and earn as much as 133 percent of the federal poverty level -- just over $20,500 a year for a two-person household.
Mayhew said Maine has already expanded eligibility to cover some of that population, but the federal government has reduced the reimbursement rate, contributing to Maine's frequent budget problems.
"While some argue the state cannot afford to turn down the expansion of Medicaid, the simple truth is that by accepting a lower rate of federal funding than other states are being offered, Maine would continue down an unsustainable and unaffordable path," Mayhew wrote. "For the expansion of Medicaid to be a viable option to consider, we would need for this penalty to be lifted, creating parity between Maine and the non-expansion states with regards to the federal match rate."
She said that if the federal government funds 100 percent of the state's Medicaid costs for Mainers covered by the expansion for 10 years, "we can put our Medicaid program on a track to succeed in the long term."
Democratic leaders had a tepid response to the proposal. Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, and House Speaker Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, said full reimbursement for 10 years is unrealistic.
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"It's encouraging that the governor is looking at accepting federal funds," Alfond said. "Doing this is good for the state's economy, it's morally the right thing to do and it's good for our health care system."
Alfond said 100 percent reimbursement "seems to be an unrealistic request. No other state in the country has gotten a deal like this. I hope this has not created a false starting point."
Mayhew said the state would also need greater flexibility to manage its Medicaid program, which she said needs an overhaul.
"We would need to provide for our current populations under a more flexible structure, like a global waiver. This would provide us with the independence that is necessary to make holistic changes to our Medicaid program that would best serve Medicaid populations," Mayhew wrote.
Mayhew's reference to a "global waiver" could become a point of contention.
The federal government typically mandates specific Medicaid coverage criteria in exchange for providing funding to states. States can petition the government for waivers that give them more discretion to manage their Medicaid programs.
A global waiver can be more expansive than a traditional waiver. Several states have requested global waivers, including New Jersey, Vermont and Rhode Island.
Rhode Island's waiver, granted in the final weeks of the Bush administration in 2009, has been championed by conservative organizations, including the Heritage Foundation, for achieving savings in the state's Medicaid budget.
Rhode Island's global waiver is sometimes compared to a Medicaid block grant that essentially allows states to take federal dollars and manage their Medicaid programs and cap spending.
Skeptics have challenged the purported savings, arguing that Rhode Island has spent less on Medicaid because of increased federal reimbursement rates and additional dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Mayhew declined to provide specifics Wednesday about the administration's vision for a global waiver. But she said the state needs greater flexibility to better manage its Medicaid recipients and associated costs.
In her letter to Sebelius, Mayhew wrote that the state "must reinvent our Medicaid program through innovations that ensure a patient-centered approach and hold providers and payers accountable for quality outcomes."
In a telephone interview, Mayhew cited the fact that Medicaid funding can't be used for home-based care for some elderly people.
The result, she said, is a "perverse incentive" to push patients into nursing homes, a more expensive service, but one that Medicaid covers.
The state could apply for a narrow waiver to change that scenario, but Mayhew said that process could take years.
She said she is convinced that the Obama administration is "interested in exploring any and all options" and "good-faith negotiations" that will lead states to participate in Medicaid expansion.
The state recently won a $33 million Medicaid innovation grant from the federal government, a fact that Mayhew cited in her letter to Sebelius.
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Darwinia+ selected for Xbox Live February 10
Introversion's award-winning indie real-time strategy game set to arrive on the Xbox 360 bundled with Multiwinia follow-up for $15.
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Darwinia evolving onto XBLA
[UPDATE] After ESRB rates PC indie hit for the Xbox 360, Introversion confirms title coming to XBLA.
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Cinemaware Marquee picks up digitally distributed PC indie game for boxed North American release.
Darwinia scores top IGF award
Real-time strategy survives tough competition, proves the fittest contender for top prize in independent game awards.
IGF nominees announced
Introversion's real-time strategy Darwinia gets four nods in indie-game development awards; winners to be announced at Game Developers Conference next March.
Strategy First picking up Steam
Software publisher to make games available over Valve Software's digital distribution service beginning later this month with Dangerous Waters.
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